The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

A fun romp for girls of all ages.

I'd like to, but than that would be lying, and if I've ever learned anything from Disney it is that lying is wrong.

A chocolate-box sequel whose rose-tinted view of constitutional monarchy will provoke hoots of derision this side of the pond.

This threadbare sequel takes a page from such revisionist fairy tales as Shrek and Ella Enchanted, movies that assume we've grown so weary of the same old Cinderella story that they go out of their way to invert the formula.

Scenes end abruptly, laughs are as rare as yetis, and the overarching question seems to be: Can we turn this into a franchise?

A braindead film that sucks the life out its audience with its annoyingly overbearing screenplay.

A fairytale, once-upon-a-time. . .this movie is for the princess in all of us.

The pace of ``Diaries 2'' is not always as crisp as some of Marshall's other films, but it is an amiable enough entertainment.

Was there a point of a sequel to a movie that was just decent after all?